Gate-hanging.



T. M. BOONE.

GATE HANGING.

APPLICATION FILED MAY15, 1911.

1,020,01 9. Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

F j/ I A 7 6i 9165 O A *6, I 0 Y 5 14/ (D 0 j Inventor r I AttorneysTHOMAS M. BOONE, 0F KINGWOOD, WEST VIRGINIA.

GATE-HANGING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

Application filed May 15, 1911. Serial No. 627,227.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS M. Boone, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kingwood, in the county of Preston and State of VestVirginia, have invented a new and useful Gate-Hanging, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to gate hangings.

The objects of the invention are to improve and simplify theconstruction of such devices as well as to increase their eflicieney inuse and to decrease the expense attending their manufacture andinstallation.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in View which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within thescope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification-l igure1 is a front elevation of a gate and gate post equipped with thehangings of the present invention, the gate being in closed position.Fig. 2 is a view taken at a right angle to Fig. 1, showing the gate inopen position, in which position the stems of the ball members .of thegate lie in the slots of the socket members of the gate post. Fig. 3 isa view similar to Fig. 1 except that the gate post and the upper andlower socket members are shown in vertical section. Fig. 1 is a detailfront elevation of the upper socket member. Fig. 5 is a perspective viewon an enlarged scale of the lower socket member.

Like reference numerals indicate corresponding parts in the differentfigures of the drawing.

The reference letter A indicates the gate post and B the gate, theseparts being shown out of their proper proportions in the drawings forthe sake of the illustration.

While the gate with which the improved hangings of the present inventionare employed may be of any suitable form and construction, it ispreferred to arrange said gate as shown in the drawings with the palingmembers or uprights 1 which are held in assembled relation to each otherby means such as the transversely extending stem members 2 and 3, eachof said stem members being formed at its outer end preferably,

although not essentially, with an integral ball member, the two ballmembers being indicated by the numerals 4 and 5 respectively.

The lower and upper ball members 1 and 5 are fitted into and adapted tocooperate with the lower and upper socket members which are indicatedgenerally by the numerals G and 7. Each of the socket members 6 and 7 ispreferably beveled at its upper and lower edges as indicated at 8 so asto adapt it to be fitted transversely into suitable dove tailed portionsof the gate post, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, thesocket members 6 and 7 being held against transverse displacement fromthe dove tailed slots of the gate post by means such as the retainingmembers or bolts 10. By dove tailing the socket members 6 and 7 in thegate post A as shown, the outer faces of said socket members are causedto be flush with the outer faces of the gate post. The upper socketmember 7, as shown best in Fig. 1, is formed in the rear face thereofwith a circular depression or socket 12 into which is properly fittedthe upper ball member 5, the stem 3 of said ball member 5 projectingforwardly from the depression 12 through a circular opening 13 which iscut entirely through the upper socket member 7. In assembling the gate,the stem 3 of the upper ball member 5 preferably is first passed throughthe opening 13 until the upper ball member 5 is located in thedepression 12 of the upper socket member. Said upper socket member 7 isthen fitted transversely into the upper dove tailed portion of the gatepost and the palings 1 which make up the gate are then secured to thestem 3 as shown in Fig. 1.

Extending transversely across the front face of the upper socket member7 is a slot 141 which is open at both ends and intersects the forwardportion of the depression 12 so that when the upper ball member which ismounted in said depression is turned in opening or closing the gate, thestem 3 thereof moves into one end or the other of the slot 14: and thuspermits the gate to be moved entirely to open position.

The lower socket member 6 as best shown in Fig. 5 of the drawing isformed in the rear face thereof with a depression 15 which serves toreceive the lower ball member 5 of the gate, said depression 15 beingintersected by a transverse slot 16 formed in the front face of thesocket member and having Copies open ends, the function of thetransverse slot 16 being to receive the stem 2 of the lower ball member5 so as to permit the gate to be moved entirely to open position. Inaddition to the transverse slot 16, the depression 15 for the lower ballmember 5 is intersected by a vertically extending slot 17 which servesas an entrance slot to permit the insertion of the ball 4 into thedepression 15. The slot 17, as shown in Fig. 5, is circular in crosssection and is of a size suflicient to permit the downward passage ofthe lower ball member 4. The lower ball member & is assembled in thelower socket member 6 before said socket member is inserted into thedove tailed slot of the gate post. That is to say, the ball member 4 ispassed downwardlythrough the undercut entrance slot 17 until it becomesseated in the depression 15 after which the socket member 6 1s fittedtransversely into the dove tailed groove in the fence post and is thensecured in position therein by means of the bolts 10.

The gate or door hangings of the present invention are strong, simple,durable and comparatively inexpensive in construction as well asthoroughly efficient in operation. It will be noted that theconstruction is such that when the gate is in open position as shown inFig. 2, there are no'hinge members projecting from the face of the gatepost as is common in most gate constructions. In other words, the axeson which the gate turns are located in rear of the outer face of thegate post and when the gate is turned into open position the gate liesin position behind the gate post and there are no projections tointerfere with the free passage of persons or objects between the twoposts of the gate.

What is claimed as new is 1. The combination with a gate and gate post,of ball and socket gate hangings, having their axes located in rear ofthe outer face of the gate post.

2. The combination of a gate, a gate post having transverse slotstherein, and ball and socket gate hanging means arranged in saidtransverse slots for the purpose described, the axes of the gate hangingmeans being located inrear of the face of the gate-post.

3. The combination with a gate member and a gate post member, of upperand lower ball elementsmounted on one of said members, upper and lowersocket members mounted on the other of said members and adapted toreceive said ball members, one of said socket members having an entranceslot to the socket portion thereof large enough to permit theintroduction of the ball member to the socket member.

4. The combination of a gate post having upper and lower transverselyextending dove tail slots therein, upper and lower socket membersmounted in said dove tail slots, each of said socket members having adepression extending forwardly from the rear face thereof and a slotextending transversely across the front face thereof, said slotintersecting the forward portion of said depression, the lower socketmember having a vertically extending slot intersecting said depressionand serving as an en trance slot, a gate having upper and lower stems,said stems being provided with ball members, the upper ball member beingmounted in the depression of the upper socket member, and the lower ballmember being mounted in the depression of the lower socket member, thestems of said ball mem bers being adapted to lie in the transverse slotsof the said socket members when the gate is moved into open position.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS M. BOONE. WVitnesses:

JAs. L. STONE, L. M. ALBRIGHT.

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